SCAI: Radial Artery Access Highlighted

BALTIMORE -- The transradial approach, transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), and peripheral vascular interventions will be some of the highlights from this year's meeting of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions.

That's according to program co-chair James Hermiller, MD, who spoke with MedPage Today senior staff writer Todd Neale to preview the meeting.

"The concept behind the meeting this year is always fundamentally about delivering the newest information in a really efficient manner ... present it in a way that practicing interventionalists can take home and use it in the cath lab immediately," said Hermiller, an interventionalist at The Care Group at St. Vincent Heart Center in Indianapolis.

In addition to a review of important trials presented at other meetings over the past year, there will be several late-breaking clinical trials presented, including EVISTA-DVT, which compares infra-inguinal stenting versus balloon venoplasty for patients with deep vein thrombosis, and HERCULES, which examines whether the biomarker brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) might predict which hypertensive patients will best respond to renal artery stenting.

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